Few in key positions succeed or fail because of their technical or business knowledge alone. More often the most decisive success factor is how well they relate to others and the world around them - their capability in human relations.

Building this capability can make a profound difference to personal performance and has the potential to transform leadership practice.

How to continuously improve their capacity in this core area is a challenge that many key decision makers face. Traditional training and development programmes taken 'off the shelf' rarely offer sustainable, positive results as they tend to apply generic solutions to predetermined scenarios - what we might call the 'known world'. By contrast, development in the realm of human relations is a very different endeavour, one which involves working with the unknown, the complex and sometimes contradictory.

What is required is a process that enables the individual to examine their own unique questions, meanings, options and ways of being. Deep engagement with such matters in the context of their own work and organisation inspires, clarifies purpose, enables insights, establishes a commitment to change and translates vision into meaningful action.

One of the most powerful ways to achieve that engagement is to make it a shared endeavour, through the support and challenge of a confidential, collaborative working partnership - what we call a 'developmental alliance'.

1-1 Executive Development provides key individuals with a developmental alliance that is tailored to suit their unique context and circumstances. For people in positions of power, leadership and accountability, confidential sessions with a 1-1 Executive Developer provide an invaluable resource that achieves sustainable results.

We differ from many other providers because we understand the complexity of the roles of the people we work alongside. Many of our Executive Developers have lived it themselves, being, or having been in leadership roles, as directors, CEO's, social innovators or change agents.